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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. ↗

— John Ruskin

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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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